sendmail, aliases and NIS+

[Dirk Wetter]

Hi,

i think i ran into this, too. what i did: configure your Linux box to
be a "nullclient", so that the mailserver, which should be a "real"
NIS+ client does the alias expansion. confusing is that sendmail -bt -dx.y
reports to support NISPLUS.

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Carroll, Jim wrote:

> I'm just now noticing a peculiar problem.
>
> On a Solaris8 NIS+ client, sendmail appears to recognize/understand/resolve
> from the aliases (mail_aliases) table.
>
> On a Linux (2.4.7-10) NIS+ client, sendmail appears to have no such clue.
>
> Yes, the following entry is in the Linux nsswitch.conf file:
>
> 	aliases:	files nisplus
>
> The test user (myself) doesn't exist in /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow), but
> *does* exist in the NIS+ tables of same.  And yet, when (as root) I do a
> simple "echo hello | mail jcarro10", it ends up dumping it to the local
> /var/spool/mail/jcarro10 file.
>
> Yes, the following entry exists in the NIS+ aliases table:
>
> 	jcarro10: jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com
>
> Yes, if I do "echo hello | mail jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com", the mail ends
> up going where I want it to.
>
> Sendmail just doesn't seem to be NIS+ aware.
>
> Suggestions where to start looking?
>
> Jim
>


cheers,
        ~dirkw
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